they said on TV for the earth to shift significantly you need a 10-10.5 earthquake. Thats like blowing up a 1 trillion tons of TNT!!! The Tsunami was 9.0 or like blowing up 32 billion tons of TNT. Also they said on TV to blow up a mile wide Asteroid with a nuke, the nuke must be at least 1000 megatons=1 billion TONS!!! THATS LIKE a 8.0 earthquake.
Really shows that as advance as we are, in reality we really can't do much against powers as strong as that!!
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Re: Re: Disasters in USA, a wake up call.?
So you are suggesting that people just abandon their homes for a few months every year because a hurricane MIGHT come their way?
Or are you suggesting that coastal regions in the entire US just be abandoned period?
It's not easy for people to just leave their homes. Especially in New Orleans. There is a spirit that you can't find anywhere else in the world. It's a way of life that can't be replaced. There is nowhere else on this planet I would rather be than here in my home even with the destruction all around me. My house didn't flood, but we did sustain wind damage...and we were looted. My parents house flooded and it's been emotionally devestating more than anything to throw away our memories and gut their once beautiful house.
This kind of thing happens...not very often. We rebuild and go on with life. That's how you have to live. Even now...almost 2 months after the hurricane there is still so so much that needs to be fixed. There are still massive piles of debris almost everywhere you look. There is still billboards laying through people's roofs and windows shattered out and stores empty from being looted. In some areas the smell is instantly nauseating. People need jobs and money. We need to get back on our feet and we know that if not this season...next season will bring more destruction and all we worked to repair will be lost again. It doesn't matter to so many of us. This is home. There is nowhere else we want to be.
I heard on the news after the storm that because some areas are now uninhabitable that we should just consider raizing the whole city and rebuild in another area, a safer area. I wanted to b*tch slap the idiot that suggested that. New Orleans is what it is because of where it is and the history that it has. This city has a soul. It has a life of it's own. You have to live here to understand why we would risk enduring these catastophies year after year. It's a part of life here, just as earthquakes are a part of life on the west coast and tornados are a part of life in the heartland of this country. There is nowhere safe. Earth will do what it wants and we have to adapt as best we can.
True but on Tv they say Katrina is nowhere near the worst type of a hurricane. We have been hit by three cat 5 but they were small and compact. This new breed of storm like Katrina and Rita are very dangerous and deadly. There massive in size by having hurricane winds reaching over 100 miles from the center and tropical force winds over 200 miles. They are also very intense and strong and not moving very rapidly. Small compact storms will cause severe damage in small area but these new large, massive, giant intense hurricanes are really going to cause problems.
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Oh...I'm aware. It doesn't matter. Well, it does matter, but there is no other place that I could call home. New Orleans is where I was born. It is where I was raised and it will be where I die. Whether by hurricane or other forces of nature...this is where I will die.
I know that these new hurricanes are vicious and deadly. I've seen it first hand. They pass though...and we start over. Earthquakes are becoming more viscious and deadly too, but we aren't relocating entire countries are we? You don't know for certain until a day before it actually hits where it plans to make landfall and how strong it will be.
So how can you know what to expect when they say evacuate. That's a problem that caused all of this here. We know that hurricanes turn last minute and that New Orleans tend to miss the brunt of storms. Don't know why...just happens that way. The people who can't afford to leave or who don't want to stay in shelters (and I don't blame them at all) take the chance to ride it out because there are no certainties. Katina shocked a lot of people. I know we should have all heeded the warnings, but when you've lived here all of your life and heard these warnings every month of every hurricane season and nothing happens...you tend to be less cautious.
Now after Katrina...more people may be inclined to leave when they say leave. It's a trial and error situation. If people don't want to leave and take the chance to die in their homes, it's their choice. As for me and my family...we choose to leave, last minute, but we leave. And when it's settled down (but the aftermath is still far from over) we come home. We can't abandon all we've ever known. This is home. It may be destroyed and half dead, but it's home. I can't expalin that any better than that.
Technically, it is possible to manipulate the weather, and is theoritically possible. However, the energy required to do that is rather high, but hten again, there is a lot of classified things out there from the various different governments.
Yes but with the increasing ocean temperatures some experts are saying there will be stronger storms then Katrina and there were (rita, Wilma)
So this means if you live in a hurricane zone you should take this seriously and evacuate. So live in New Orleans and have fun but if something comes your way evacuate because believe it or not New Orleans can be hit harder then Katrina.
Its true, New Orleans did not get a 25-30 foot storm surge. If the storm passed to the left of New Orleans, it would have. I am not making this up it was all on TV about hurricanes.
So you all be careful down there. Hurricanes can kill, they don't just blow some air and water around.
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